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Edmund Kesting German
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When a print is solarized during development, the areas of photographic tone reverse along its edges. By using this technique, Kesting made the bathers' bodies appear incandescent. His nonsolarized prints from the same negative do not evoke the penetrating heat of the sun so viscerally.
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Title: Sun of the Midi
Artist:
Edmund Kesting (German, 1892–1970)
Date: 1928
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 19.5 x 25.8 cm (7 11/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Accession Number: 1987.1100.65
Rights and Reproduction: © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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